Jackson Showalter-cavanaugh
Type Designer at Okay Type
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJackson Showalter-Cavanaugh is a Chicago-based type designer with over a decade of experience running Okay Type, a small independent typeface studio he founded in 2008. Trained with a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, he blends formal design education with hands-on craft in custom and retail typeface development. His work emphasizes practical typographic solutions for print and digital contexts, informed by a long practice of balancing aesthetic nuance with usability. Although new to LinkedIn, he brings sustained independent studio discipline and a deep, iterative approach to letterforms that clients rely on for distinctive typographic voice.
11 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Summa Cum Laude, High School Diploma, Summa Cum Laude at Troy Athens High SchoolBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA at College for Creative Studies
Github Skills (21)
twine9
transliteration8
glyph7
jekyll7
cldr7
slug7
slugify6
unicode5
azerothcore5
craftcms4
plugin3
stripe-payments2
stripe2
pdf1
dashboard-widget1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
okay-type/Markymark-roboFontExt
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Marky markColor in Robofont's Glyph Edit Window - Robofont Extension
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 month
glyphmarkyrobofont-extensionwindow
okay-type/AddOverlap
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
RoboFontExtension
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 8 months
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